Birkenstein (Fischbachau)

Birch stone municipality Fischbachau Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	855 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	293  (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	83730
Area code :	08028
Fischbachau, seen from the Birkenstein district

Devotional picture around 1860

Birkenstein is part of the municipality of Fischbachau in the Leitzachtal in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach .

Birkenstein is a popular place of pilgrimage in southern Bavaria. The church village lies at the foot of the Breitenstein mountain , a popular hiking trail leads up from the pilgrimage chapel.

Buildings

Pilgrimage chapel

The pilgrimage chapel Maria Himmelfahrt was built in 1710 as a replica of the “Holy House” of Loreto , the alleged home of the Holy Family in Nazareth , by Johann Mayr the Elder. Ä. built and consecrated in 1786 by Prince-Bishop Ludwig Joseph von Welden . The ensemble also includes the small monastery, the free altar and the monumental crucifixion group on the hill opposite the chapel.

The entrance lock at the main gate of the pilgrimage chapel was restored and partially redesigned by the local blacksmith Nikolaus Steinberger.

literature

• Peter Pfister : Birkenstein . in: Peter Pfister and Hans Ramisch (eds.): Marienwallfahrten in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . Regensburg 1989, pp. 43-52.
• Sixtus Lampl : Birkenstein, a Benedictine pilgrimage in the mountains . (Church leaders), Valley 2000.

Web links

Commons : Birkenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising on the Birkenstein pilgrimage chapel
• Photos of church furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 104 ( digitized version ).